Obj. ID: 53348
Memorials Holocaust memorial at the killing site of Kostopil Jews in Lisopil, Ukraine
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Kostopil Jews who were murdered here
Description
The monument is located on the mass grave in a forest near the Lisopil village. It is a black headstone with Hebrew and Ukrainian inscriptions. A Menorah is carved within a Magen David at the top of the monument. There is a flowerbed in front of the monument. The small area around the headstone is paved and fenced by a blue-colored wooden fence.
Inscriptions
Hebrew:
קבר אחים
של יהודי קוסטופול
שנרצחו ונזרקו חיים לבורות
על ידי הנאצים הפשיסטים
בשנים 1941-42
יהי זכרם ברוך
Translation: Mass grave of Kostopol Jews who were murdered and thrown alive in pits by Nazi fascists in the years 1941-42. May their memory be blessed
Ukrainian:
Тут братня могила
Костопільських євреїв
безвинно замучених, розстріляних,
живцем закопаних німецько -
фашистськими катами
в 1941 - 1942 роках.
Вічна шана їх світлій памʼяті
Translation: Here is a mass grave of Kostopil Jews innocently tormented, shot, buried alive by Nazi-fascist torturers in 1941 – 1942. Eternal honor to their blessed memory.
Commissioned by
To be determined
Pavlo kost, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
4 image(s)
sub-set tree:
German troops occupied Kostopil in the early July 1941. There were approximately 4,000 Jews there at that time. Shortly after the occupation, a pogrom took place in the town. The first mass shooting took place on August 16, 1941, when the Nazis killed about 400 Jews outside Kostopil. The Kostopil ghetto was established on October 5, 1941. Jews from surrounding villages were brought to the ghetto. During the second mass killing action in the fall of 1941, Security Police, SD and Ukrainian Police members shot about 1,400 Jews outside the town. During the liquidation of Kostopol ghetto on August 26, 1942, the Jews from the town were brought to the Chotenka Forest and shot there together with the Jews from Antonówka and Małe Siedliszcze. In total, about 13,000 Jews were murdered in Kostopil district during the Holocaust, about 270 Jews from Kostopil survived the war [Encyclopedia].
One day, apparently in late August 1942, the German Nazis marched a group of Jews from Kostopil, men, women, and children, to Lisopil and killed them there in a forest [Yahad-In Unum].
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945, ed. Martin Dean, vol. 2 (Bloomington: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012), pp. 1387–1388.
"Execution of Jews from Kostopil in Lisopil,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, http://www.yahadinunum.orgwww.yahadmap.org/#village/lisopil-rivne-ukraine.723.